[Though he knows most of the details of what happened, it is not the same as having experienced it himself. By contrast, Rhea'li looks directly at Azem.]

And so the Convocation devised a plan. A plan to create a being named Zodiark that would strengthen the aetherial currents. But for such a being to exist, it would need an offering of lives. Though most were in accord to thus save the star, not all saw this as the answer. For half the lives of the star were sacrificed to create Zodiark, and then half again to restore that which was lost.

[And somewhere, Azem was not there. Gone, and whatever they had tried, it had not worked.]

But there was one who was armed with knowledge that none else of the time knew. And she knew because of a certain traveller from the future that the calamity was not truly over. And thus was another being created, Hydaelyn, who would sunder the star and enact a plan that would take twelve thousand years to come to fruition.

[Sometimes, he wonders what would have happened if he had not been sent hurtling into the past. What decisions would Venat have made instead? Would the situation with Hermes escalated so?]